Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and Head of the PCC Commission on Organization, addresses the congress. (Photo: PLO)
Addressing the congress, Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and Head of the PCC Commission on Organization, praised and congratulated the province for its achievements over the past 5 years.
He urged the province to continue to reinforce solidarity and consensus in the Party and political system; focus on boosting economic development; restore and promote traditional and cultural values; strengthen national defence and security; and boost international integration.
In the next 5 years, the provincial Party Committee targets to lead the province in increasing the building of the Party and political system; boosting innovation and wisely using resources; developing commodity agricultural production; and accelerating industrial, trade, service and tourism development, becoming a relatively well-developed province in the northern mountainous region by 2030, and a locality of average socio-economic development compared to the whole country by 2045.
It will strive to obtain GRDP growth rate of 9-10% per year and GRDP per capita of VND65 million per year; collect VND3 trillion to the state budget; reduce the household poverty rate by 3% per year; and create jobs for 8,500 labourers per year.
To accomplish the above objectives, Lai Chau will implement four key programs, including the program on centralized commodity agriculture development; sustainable forest development; conservation and promotion of cultural identity associated with tourism development; and improvement of the quality of ethnic minority cadres and managers.
Along with that, the province will perform four breakthrough tasks: synchronously building infrastructure, especially transport and infrastructure in agriculture and rural areas; promoting administrative reform, improving provincial competitiveness and business investment environment; continuing to improve the quality of human resources; and developing commodity agriculture with focus on creating valuable specialty products.
Over the past 5 years, Lai Chau reported an average economic growth rate of over 11% per year; gross product in 2020 of nearly VND20.5 trillion, an increase over 95% compared to 2015; GRDP per capita of over VND40 million; and import-export turnover of over USD200 million.
Social welfare policies have been promptly realized, together with adequate building and development of culture and human; improvement in the quality of education and training; appropriate investment in healthcare; and rapid reduction of poverty rate./.